I agree with Randy, the teen white girl piece was great too.

aline

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Randy Reiter <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> My son sent me the link to this piece and I was glad he did.  This piece
> might bring the idea of the gap between rich and poor to more young people
> than media coverage of its rise over the past decade (much as Jon Stewart
> might be for youth the foremost exemplar of the practice of critical
> thinking available in current media).
>
> My only critique of the Onion piece is that its historical approach
> suggested a gradual/steady increase worldwide over time (suggesting
> inevitability), rather than a recent jump due to recent political-economic
> practices.
>
> But really the most brilliant item from the Onion from around the same time
> was the article about a teenage white girl being ordered by the judge to be
> tried as a 300-pound black man.  Absolutely not to be missed.
>
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> Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often
> vague, than an exact answer to the wrong questions, which can always be
> made precise.
>  --JW Tukey, The future of data analysis, Ann math stat, 1962; 33:13-14
>
> Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food
> supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation,
> education, and health care, whose distribution across populations
> effectively determines length and quality of life
>  - CDC
>
> Medicine is a social science, and politics is but medicine on a large
> scale.
>  -Rudolf Virchow, Die medizinische Reform, 2. In Henry Ernest Sigerist,
> Medicine and Human Welfare, 1941: 93
>
> I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so
> vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is
> horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other
> people.
>  - Eduardo Galeano
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> For those who are not familiar with the Onion, they always try to push the
> envelope with very dry satire. They absolutely make fun of everything and
> everyone. In satire unfortunately, there is no limit, and the Onion is
> known for that. And they usually try to repeat what people are secretly
> thinking, or the absurdities that we hear in the rhetorics around us,
> however, they do so to actually call on the absurd, the twisted, the
> obviously distorted aspects of our daily lives. I am a huge fun and would
> highly encourage all of you offended by the seemingly anti-semitic
> statement to look at it as one that is intended to call out the absurdity
> and hilarity directed at those who easily believe in conspiracy theories
> (orchestrated by "the Jews")...
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Aline N.
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> Aline Nizigama
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University]
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